Cycle bell



M. BRUN CYCLE BELL Feb. 22, 1949.

2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Aug. 4, 1947 \l mQ IN VENTOR.

Arrow E15 M. BRUN CYCLE BELL Feb. 22, 1949.

2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Aug. 4, 1947 Patented Feb. 22, race 2 462 718 UNITED STATES PATENT orrics CYCLE BELL Marcel Brun, Saint-EtiennefFrance Application August 4, 1947, Serial No. 765,957 In France Decemberfil, 1945 Section 1, Public Law 690, August 8, 1946 Patent expires December 1, 1965 2 Claims. (01. 116-61) 1 2 My invention relates to cycle bells of the kind on su seon h. The ut r m T is carried by described in my U. S. patent application filed an axial blind sleeve n which is screwed on the February 26, 1946, Serial No. 650,211. In such projecting end of gudgeon h. It will be noted cycle bells there is provided a pair of opposed that each striker is adapted to cooperation sounding domes with corresponding resiliently 5 With One (1 ycarried strikers, while means are provided to suc- P ate 1 s fo ed w t a lateral projection 2 cessively move each of said strikers from the coradapted to pass between each striker and the responding dome and then to release the same, corresponding dome a d o e the Striker such means being formed of a reciprocatable wardly against the action of its supporting spring.

spring-loaded lever adapted for manual actuation. It will be e y understood that W e roller f A first object of this invention is to provide a is in frictional engagement with the tyre 1:, platez" cycle bell f the above-described character wherein is rotated, whereby projection is displaces the the means to actuate the strikers are adapted strikers o in succession and then releases the to be frictionally driven by the cycle Wheel. a h ou ding d m s being adapted to give A further object of my invention is a cycle bell l5 two different notes, the sound produced pri of the two dome type comprising a rotatable pl te an alternate succession of these two notes. disposed within one of the sounding domes, the I c a said plate carrying one or several projections 1. A cycle bell comprising a support; a gudgeon adapted to actuate the strikers and being driven fixed on said support; a first sounding dome fixed y a pini n a ried by a sh ft pr j c in fr m to said support coaxially to said gudgeon, said the domes and carrying a frictional roller adapted dome opening opposite to said support; a member to bear against a tyre of the cycle. rotatably mounted on said gudgeon within said In the anIleXed d i dome; means to rotate said member, said means Fig. 1 is a side View of my improved bell with embodying a frictional roller rotatably carried by parts in axial Section. said support and adapted to bear on a cycle tyre; Fig. 2 is an elevation thereof, the first dome a second soundin dome carried by said gudgeon being pposedly removed. coaxially to said first dome, in opposed relation The improved bell comprises a movable support thereto; strikers in close but non-contacting relaa pivoted at b 011 a 9 G fiXed the 57 tion with each of said domes; means embodying frame support a 15 actuated by a cable and springs to support said strikers, said last-named sheath transmision e against the action of a means being tt h to said gudgeon; means on Spring Undel: the action of the transmission 6 said rotatable member adapted to pass between the frictional driving roller is laterally pressed said domes and said strikers to move the latter agamst the l inwardly in succession and to release the same;

sbpport 13 formed Wlth an arm which said member being the form of a perforated plate the mner Sounding dome the latter and said first means comprising a pinion in enbelng clamped between Said arm and a gagement with said plate, and a shaft passed shoulder formed on an axlal gudgeon h riveted throughahmein said first sounding dome at about on arm right angles to said gudgeon, said shaft bein on gudgeon @there rotatably mounted a rotatably carried by said support and carrying formed plate 2 combmed Wlth three'armed said pinion within said first dome and said fricmember 7' which plays the role of a hub for the tional roller externany of Said dome said plate 1'. As illustrated the end of the arms 2' A Cycle be comprising a t; a gudgeon of member 7 are engaged through Openings of fixed on said support; a first sounding dome fixed plate 2 and fixed therein. to said support co-axially to said gudgeon, said Plate 1 is provided with perforations 11 along dome Opening Opposite said support, and being its periphery which cooperate with the teeth of provided with a 1atera1 p l t t tably a driving pinion k formed on a shaft m disposed mounted on Said gudgeon ithin said dome, said at a out h p t to gudgeon Shaft m plate being formed with a co-axial circular row pa s s through a 1 6 provided in the inner dome of perforations; means on said gudgeon to form 9; t is rot t y Supported y a bearing 1 Carried a hub for said plate; a toothed pinion in mesh y the uppe e d of a 1; and it carries at with the perforations of said plate; a shaft at its upper end the frictional roller 1. about right angles to said gudgeon to carry said The strikers o are supported by short helicoidal pinion, said shaft extending through the hole of springs p carried by a two-armed lever q mounted -i said dome; means carried by said support to rotatably support said shaft; a frictional roller carried by said shaft, said roller being adapted to bear against the tyre of a cycle wheel; a second sounding dome carried by said gudgeon in co-axial but opposed relation to said first dome; a. two-armed member fixed on said gudgeon within said domes between said plate and said second dome; coil springs at the ends of said two-armed members, said springs being in substantial parallel relation to said gudgeon; strikers carried by said coil springs in close but non-contacting relation to each of said domes; and a projection on said plate to move said strikers inwardly in succession and to release the same.

MARCEL BRUN.

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